BAPI & RFC

[Former Member]

From XI perspective whether the RFC and BAPI settings are one and the same, or do we have a different flow.

[Former Member]

Hey,

BAPI is a set of interfaces to object-oriented programming methods that enable a programmer to <b>integrate third-party software</b> into the proprietary R/3 product from SAP. For specific business tasks such as uploading transactional data, BAPIs are implemented and stored in the R/3 system as remote function call (RFC) modules.

A Remote Function Call (RFC) is an application program interface to R/3 applications from SAP

Technically BAPI is also a RFC but with a custom code with a option of integrating third party s/w .

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[Former Member]

Hi

For XI there is no difference between RFC and BAPI, We use the same RFC adapter for both.

In ABAP also..BAPI is created with the help of RFC's only.BAPI has a structure unlike RFC and it needs to be released to be integrated with the third party software.All BAPI's are RFC's but All RFC's are not BAPI's.